The diocesan phase of the Cause of Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan, who served as president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, will be opened on October 22.

Bishop Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has expressed concern at the award of the Nobel Prize in medicine to the inventor of in vitro fertilisation.

A Church-run radio station in the Philippines has admitted that it made a mistake when transcribing a interview with Bishop Nereo Odchimar, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines, concerning the country’s controversial Reproductive Health bill.